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Rivals: Pastner and Dixon talk NIT Championship
Kelly Quinlan | Publisher
Georgia Tech basketball coach Josh Pastner and TCU coach Jamie Dixon spoke with the media on Wednesday to preview the Jackets and Horned Frogs showdown in the NIT Championship game on Thursday night in Madison Square Garden.
GEORGIA TECH COACH JOSH PASTNER
COACH PASTNER: Yeah, well, we were fortunate to win yesterday against a really good Cal State Bakersfield team. Very well coached. They play hard, have great energy and they compete. For us to only have seven turnovers, I was really proud of our guys for that, because that's hard to do against a team like Bakersfield. So a really good Bakersfield team.And then tomorrow, it doesn't get any easier obviously as we're playing TCU. Coach Dixon, one of the best coaches in the game; obviously his run at Pittsburgh was amazing, and he's doing the same thing at TCU.We're going to have to be really, really good if we're going to have a chance to win the game. They are excellent and they are probably just -- probably like us. They will probably be playing the best basketball of their season at this time of the year.
Q. TCU has a real big guy in the middle. What kind of difficulty does he create for you that maybe you've not seen before?
COACH PASTNER: Well, the big kid in the middle is really good. I mean, you talk about -- he's fundamentally sound. He just knows how to play the right way. He's just a high-level basketball player. He looks like he has a high IQ of the game and really knows -- just makes the right reads. His footwork is at a high level. He's just sound at everything he does. He's a really good basketball player.You know, and their team is good. Their team, they don't beat themselves. I mean, if you're going to want to beat TCU, you're going to have to earn the victory. There's no doubt about it.
Read more at https://georgiatech.rivals.com/news/pastner-and-dixon-talk-nit-championship
Kelly Quinlan | Publisher
Georgia Tech basketball coach Josh Pastner and TCU coach Jamie Dixon spoke with the media on Wednesday to preview the Jackets and Horned Frogs showdown in the NIT Championship game on Thursday night in Madison Square Garden.
GEORGIA TECH COACH JOSH PASTNER
COACH PASTNER: Yeah, well, we were fortunate to win yesterday against a really good Cal State Bakersfield team. Very well coached. They play hard, have great energy and they compete. For us to only have seven turnovers, I was really proud of our guys for that, because that's hard to do against a team like Bakersfield. So a really good Bakersfield team.And then tomorrow, it doesn't get any easier obviously as we're playing TCU. Coach Dixon, one of the best coaches in the game; obviously his run at Pittsburgh was amazing, and he's doing the same thing at TCU.We're going to have to be really, really good if we're going to have a chance to win the game. They are excellent and they are probably just -- probably like us. They will probably be playing the best basketball of their season at this time of the year.
Q. TCU has a real big guy in the middle. What kind of difficulty does he create for you that maybe you've not seen before?
COACH PASTNER: Well, the big kid in the middle is really good. I mean, you talk about -- he's fundamentally sound. He just knows how to play the right way. He's just a high-level basketball player. He looks like he has a high IQ of the game and really knows -- just makes the right reads. His footwork is at a high level. He's just sound at everything he does. He's a really good basketball player.You know, and their team is good. Their team, they don't beat themselves. I mean, if you're going to want to beat TCU, you're going to have to earn the victory. There's no doubt about it.
Read more at https://georgiatech.rivals.com/news/pastner-and-dixon-talk-nit-championship
